So if y’all haven’t noticed, I changed my background. I just recently saw this and decided to jump on the bandwagon. I am announcing this post because I support this wholeheartedly and would like to share my own story briefly.
I was bullied for almost the whole time I spent in grade school. This one girl seemed to decide she hated me from day one. I’d never been anything but kind to her and everyone else, and being a young, innocent, kind child, I tried to be her friend, continually coming back for more over and over again. I went from the cheerful, confident little girl everyone knew to the shy kid that no one talked to. I had no friends for years. I would go outside every break and sit alone behind the large recycling bins in a deserted corner of the playground and cry out to God to understand why this was happening to me.
Several lonely years later, I moved on to the Junior grades, and finally, the girl and most of her gang were no longer in my class. This was one of the happier years of my schooling. I was doing well in all my classes, I knew every teacher in the school, and I actually had FRIENDS. Looking back, it’s painfully funny how happy this made me. It didn’t last long. The next year, she was back with a vengeance. This is when I started to become insecure.
Nerd. Ugly. Idiot. Klutz. Incompetent. Weirdo. Jesus freak.
I heard it all, and it went straight to my heart. Probably the one of the happiest moments of my life was fall 2021, when a girl who is now one of my closest friends- at the time we didn’t even know each other’s names- walked up to me and said, “Your skirt looks beautiful.” on the playground. Nour, you are a blessing from God. You came when I needed you most. She had asked others, “Who is that girl? Why is she on her own? She seems nice.” The other kids said, “That’s _____. No one really talks to her.”
People, bullying is awful. Take it from a victim. Let’s fight to end this toxic trend and save future students from having stories like mine.
